Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, (0–)1–12+ cm underground, villous.

prostrate, 0.5–3(–7) cm, internodes short, length slightly 2 times stipules, strigulose.

(2–)3–12 cm;

stipules distinct, subterranean ones often fully amplexicaul but distinct, 7–15 mm, foliose at distal nodes;

leaflets (5–)7–13(–15), blades elliptic, oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, 10–30(–35) mm, pinnately veined, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–10 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 1–4 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets 11–15(or 17) blades linear-elliptic or oblanceolate, 3–10 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces usually strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–5-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm.

erect, 3–9.8 cm, usually longer than subtending leaf.

ascending, (1.5–)2.5–8 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1.5–2 mm.

13–19 mm;

calyx campanulate to subcylindric, 7.5–8.8 mm, villosulous, tube 6.3–8 mm, lobes broadly triangular, 0.6–0.8 mm;

corolla yellowish with whitish margins, banner sometimes purple bordered white, keel 13.2–16 mm.

9.5–11 mm;

calyx purplish, cylindric or campanulate, 5–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 3–3.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–2 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, banner and keel with purple tips or veins;

keel 7–7.5 mm.

green becoming brown, ± straight, ovoid, inflated, 15–21 × 5.5–8 mm, papery-membranous, black-pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm;

stipe 5–7 mm, pubescent.

separating from receptacle at maturity, ascending (humistrate), red-mottled, gently incurved, narrowly oblong, slightly 3-sided compressed, 12–20 × 3.5–5 mm, sub-bilocular, thin becoming papery, sparsely strigulose;

septum partial, 0.2–0.6 mm wide;

sessile, gynophore to 1 mm.

6–10.

8–10.

= 16.